Physical bitcoin worth $1.78M gets cracked open after 12 years

The government effectively banned the most resilient form of cold storage when FinCEN labeled physical Casascius coins as "unlicensed money transmission." While modern traders just lost $937 million in liquidations, a 12-year-old physical coin worth $1.78M was finally cracked open, proving these "illegal" tokens are the ultimate diamond-hand assets. If physical Bitcoin is more secure than any modern exchange, why did we let regulators ban it? Is it time to bring back physical crypto?
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